Prints & Multiples

Provenance:

The Artist

Clement de Jonghe (1624/25-1677), Amsterdam; his estate inventory, 1679, no. 769 ('34 buuren praatende')

Claude-Henri Watelet (French, 1718-86), Paris; his sale, Paillet-Hayot, Paris, 1786, Lot 365 (with 59 others)

Pierre-François Basan (French, 1723-1797), acquired directly from the above, his stock list no. 1414

Thence by descent to his son, Henri-Louis Basan (French, d. before 1819), with his sequencing no. 57 incised verso

Auguste Jean (French, d. 1820), acquired from the above, ca. 1810

Thence by descent to his wife, Adèle-Joséphine Raulin; her sale, Paris, 1846

Auguste Bernard (1811-1868), Paris, acquired directly from the above

Thence by descent to his son, Michel Bernard

Alvin-Beaumont, Paris, acquired from the above in 1906

Robert Lee Humber, Jr. (1898-1870), North Carolina, U.S.A., acquired from the above in 1938; on loan to the North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, until 1993

With Artemis Fine Arts, London, in association with R. M. Light & Co., Santa Barbara, 1993; on consignment from the above

Private Collection, U.S.A, acquired from the above

Literature:

Bartsch, Hollstein 128; Hind 192; New Hollstein 191

Erik Hinterding, The history of Rembrandt’s copperplates, with a catalogue of those that survive, Waanders Uitgevers, Zwolle, 1995, p. 50, 64.

Frans Laurentius, Clemens de Jonghe (ca. 1624-1677): Kunstverkoper in de Gouden Eeuw, Utrecht, 2010, p. 148, no. 769.

One of only 81 of Rembrandt's original copper plates known to have survived to the present day.

Plate is uneven, with remains of ink, minor surface soiling, incised '57' verso. Please contact [email protected] for additional images.

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